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Originally Posted by Skybird
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- A Newsweek poll has found that a large majority of American voters are in favour of NATO in the wake of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
- A large majority said they were either strongly supportive or supportive of continued U.S. membership of NATO.
- Respondents were split on whether alliance members should spend more on defense and whether the U.S. should continue to defend those nations that fail to meet bloc spending targets.
https://www.newsweek.com/us-nato-pub...ending-1793956
I find this continued support quite amazing. If I were an American, I would have lost my patience many years ago.
It is not just a question of money, but also of the willingness of the population to defend itself (extrenely low in Germany, for exmaple), and the inefficiency and paralysis caused by the bureaucratic apparatus. Finally, the lack of recruits due to demographic decline after compulsory military service was abolished in many places.
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Newsweek's math doesn't add up. not surprising, considering the state of public education system in the U.S.
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A large majority said they were either strongly supportive (38 percent) or supportive (30 percent) of continued U.S. membership of NATO. Nineteen percent of respondents said they were indifferent, while only seven percent either opposed (4 percent) or strongly opposed (3 percent) American involvement in the 74-year-old alliance.
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6% of respondents disappeared. What happened to the answers of those 90 people?
IMO, NATO should be disbanded, not because I'm an Isolationist, but because the world has changed and NATO has not kept up with it. the Original NATO was formed as a mutual defense pact between 12 countries to counter Soviet expansion into Europe after WWII. Which makes sense, since Europe as a whole was a pile of rubble, both psychologically & physically.
The Soviet Union disbanded in 1991, and yet NATO has expanded from the original 12 members to 31, and from where I sit, has become a repository for bureaucratic red tape, with no clear mission. It is time to disband NATO and come up with something more relevant to todays political landscape, and militarily beneficial to it's members. |
